Ep 129 | Time to Put Your Brain in a Computer | Guest: Robin Hanson
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Are we approaching a time when we will be able to download our consciousness into a computer? If so, what will that do to our lifestyle, economy, etc...? Robin Hanson, author of 'Age of Em', chats with Heaton about the future of the human mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I really dig your platform shoes. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're going to talk about the future. |
| 0:22.0 | I want you to picture the Matrix. We're all living in a computer |
| 0:27.0 | simulation with Kiana Reeves, lots of trench goats, computers, you know the |
| 0:30.8 | score. Now, picture office space. The delightful 90s era Mike Judge |
| 0:37.3 | film. Got it? All right now combine the two and you've got something approaching the world Robin Hanson predicts in his book |
| 0:46.1 | The Age of M work, love, and life when robots rule the earth. |
| 0:52.1 | While that book, which we will discuss with the author in a moment is |
| 0:55.7 | said in the future it touches on a lot of issues that are affecting us now or will |
| 1:00.5 | quite soon. For example you guys worried about automation? |
| 1:04.1 | I am. |
| 1:05.1 | Not at the moment. |
| 1:06.1 | Right now it's pretty hard to replace me with a robot. |
| 1:08.8 | Engineers haven't quite cracked the code on how to get robots to write jokes and funny |
| 1:12.4 | advertisements. |
| 1:14.0 | But let's say 10, 15 years from now, Ray Kurtzweil finally figures out how to download a brain |
| 1:20.3 | onto a computer. |
| 1:21.9 | And that downloaded brain can work as an employee of a company living inside of its computer |
| 1:26.2 | system. |
| 1:27.2 | Hence the Matrix meets office space. |
| 1:29.6 | How might that change the economy? |
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